Board of Directors
Shaun Gregory
Shaun Gregory is Director of Advertising for Telefonica and Non Executive Chairman at TagMan. At Telefonica, Shaun has a global remit for the advertising businesses that span multiple platforms, including IPTV, online, social and mobile. He is part of building the global aspirations for Telefonica Digital, spanning 26 markets across Europe, US, Asia and Latin America. Shaun has a broad range of media experience having worked at the highest level for some of the most respected media companies, spanning tv, radio, newspapers, magazines, digital and mobile media. He is regularly cited as a leading voice in the personalisation space and was ranked by Revolution as one of the top 50 most influential people in new media. He sits on a range of industry bodies, like the MMA Board, and is also a non executive director of other media companies like Ocean Outdoor.
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Seth Brody
Seth is an experienced ecommerce and digital media executive having held senior management positions at Orbitz Worldwide, Razorgator, Priceline.com and Netmarket. He serves on the board of Bankrate, Inc., the leading online financial services company and is an advisor to WineAccess, Inc. Seth holds an MBA from Harvard Business School and a BA from Yale University.
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John Taysom
John founded the Reuters VC Fund, The Greenhouse, in 1994 in Palo Alto acquiring the fund in an MBO in 2001. Through the fund John invested in on-line advertising pioneer Advertising.com, and in content companies supported by on-line advertising: Yahoo, Forbes.com, Sportsline and others. Through investments like UltraDNS, Verisign, OpenWave, WhereOnEarth and others John invested in many of the component technologies of the Internet. The fund made 82 investments of which 16 achieved an IPO, 14 on Nasdaq. John now focusses on seed investing and was an early investor in Abcam (now public on the AIM market of the LSE). John is a 2011 Harvard Fellow.
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Paul Cook
Paul is a marketing technologist and entrepreneur with over 13 years of online experience in tagging and campaign management. Following an early career in media sales both online and offline, he founded one of the first companies to offer post-click/post-impression tracking solutions. Paul’s passion to make implementing new SaaS marketing solutions pain-free lead to TagMan, which he launched in 2007.
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Jon Baron
As CEO and Co-founder of TagMan, Jon is responsible globally for the company’s vision, strategy and growth.Jon is a veteran in the digital media industry. His career in the space began in 1997 as an early member of the IAB, running networking events and working for pioneering Internet publishers before moving to the global player MSN. He spent 10 years at Microsoft creating and building MSN’s first multi-national sales teams for the US, EMEA and Asia. After Microsoft, he joined hypertext and rich-media ad network Vibrant Media as VP of International Sales where he built out the international and ad-exchange capabilities. Jon gained a BSc (hons) psychology with business, focusing on artificial intelligence and cognition; his thesis was focused R&D about pen computing. He loves any and all adrenaline sports.
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